About the Role
The Strategic Initiatives Planning unit within Toronto Water's Water Infrastructure Management section seeks an Engineer to lead strategic infrastructure planning studies. This role involves addressing growth servicing, service level enhancements, and emerging infrastructure demands, collaborating with various City divisions and agencies to support complex city-building initiatives.
Responsibilities
- Lead and support studies, projects, and programs related to water infrastructure management, including sewer and water capacity assessments, sewage pumping station capacity assessments, wet weather flow assessment (including water quality), and master planning.
- Review and provide municipal engineering input on reports, drawings, designs, analyses, policies, guidelines, procedures, bylaws, and legislation.
- Represent Toronto Water as a technical specialist and/or stakeholder in meetings with internal sections, City divisions, external agencies, the public, and Councillor's offices.
- Prepare technical reports, Committee and Community Council reports, figures, and content for public education/communication.
- Manage assigned projects, ensuring effective teamwork, communication, and high standards of work quality, compliance with contractual and City requirements, and timely completion.
- Prepare capital business cases, project charters, bid documents (RFPs, RFQs, REOIs), terms of reference, and scope of work for consultant assignments, including consultant selection and direction.
- Develop procedures, guidelines, technical standards, and policies for water infrastructure management, including growth management and infrastructure servicing.
- Lead and contribute to working groups, training sessions, and presentations to support knowledge sharing and process improvement.
- Perform other related duties as assigned.
Requirements
- Registration as a Professional Engineer (P.Eng.) with Professional Engineers Ontario (PEO).
- Completion of a post-secondary degree in civil and/or municipal engineering, or an equivalent combination of education and experience.
- Considerable experience as a Professional Engineer working with water, sewer, pumping, and/or stormwater infrastructure.
- Experience with capacity assessment, growth planning, infrastructure servicing, wet weather flow management, design and construction, and/or development approvals processes.
- Experience in hydraulic modelling, studies, and infrastructure planning.
- Experience using relevant software, including Geographical Information System (GIS), and modelling software such as Infoworks and/or Infowater or equivalent.
- Excellent communication and analytical skills for preparing technical reports, briefing notes, reports to Committee and Council, presentations, and responses to inquiries.
- Knowledge of the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment (EA) process applicable to municipal infrastructure planning.
- Project and stakeholder management skills to plan, lead, manage, and implement multidisciplinary projects of varied scope.
- Interpersonal, conflict resolution, leadership, and problem-solving skills, with the ability to interact effectively with all organizational levels.
- Fundamental knowledge of federal, provincial, and municipal regulations, policies, and guidelines related to the job (e.g., Occupation Health & Safety Act) and applicable to wastewater and stormwater systems, infrastructure planning, and management.
- Project and contract management experience is considered an asset.
Skills
- Communication skills
- Analytical skills
- Project management skills
- Stakeholder management skills
- Interpersonal skills
- Conflict resolution skills
- Leadership skills
- Problem-solving skills
- Hydraulic modelling
- GIS
- Infoworks
- Infowater
Location
- Metro Hall, 55 John St, Toronto, ON M5V 0C4
Work Type
- Full-Time
- Permanent
Experience Level
- Professional Engineer
Education Level
- Post-secondary degree in civil and/or municipal engineering
Salary/Compensations
- $89,337.00 - $132,880.00
About the Company
- Toronto Water is the City of Toronto division responsible for all aspects of drinking water treatment and supply, wastewater collection and treatment, and stormwater management.
- The Water Infrastructure Management (WIM) section is responsible for the long-term management of Toronto's water, wastewater, and stormwater management assets to optimize infrastructure investment, levels of service, and system performance.
- WIM provides engineering analysis, asset management, infrastructure planning, policy development, and coordination across Toronto Water.
- The section supports service delivery to 3.6 million residents in Toronto and surrounding regions, manages over $83 billion in assets, and oversees a 10-year capital plan of approximately $16.2 billion.
Equal Opportunity
- The City is an equal opportunity employer, dedicated to creating a workplace culture of inclusiveness that reflects the diverse residents that we serve.
- The City of Toronto is committed to creating an accessible and inclusive organization.
- We are committed to providing barrier-free and accessible employment practices in compliance with the Accessibility for Ontarians with Disabilities Act (AODA).
- Should you require Code-protected accommodation through any stage of the recruitment process, please make them known when contacted and we will work with you to meet your needs.
- Disability-related accommodation during the application process is available upon request.
